Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-02-24
KANSAS STATE NEWS.
Kan.a. Legislature.

l
HE Senate was not in session on the
18th. In the House few bills were intro
duced Among them . hill IN reguiatS GisciiOns
9 bill relating to roads and highways; q bill
relating to billiard tables and bowling alleys.
Mr. Bond introduced a bill to stop the use OF
toSac>o at places Of public worship. There was
! a long discussion upon the question of visiting
Wichita. 1t was finally agreed by o vote OF
a. to 20 to n,sks tke szsrssicf un Friday; tbt,
18Th extending the trip to Hutchinson and
Mcpherson. Adjourned.
! THE Senate met at four p. m. on the 18th
and passed the following bills: Making appro-
priations for the pententiary; providing for
three Commissioners Of the Supreme Court, and
! several local bills The House also met ct
| four o'clock and several bills were introduced,
Among the bills passed Was the bill to restore
ind define the boundaries OF the counties OF
| Seward, Stevens and Morton, and a number Of
bills purely Of a local character, Adjourned
| AMONG tho petitions presented to the
Senate on the 18th was one ff6m seventy boys
| and eighty one girls praying for more stringent
prohibitory laws. The following bill was passed:
To amend chapter 1S3 Of session laws 1851, being
IAN act relating to statistics and afnendatory
of section Z; chapter e., session laws, 1915. :"
In the House, bills were introduced and the
work OF the morning session was mostly rou-
tine. AT the afternoon session labor bills were
considered in Committee OF the Whole and the
| following recommended for passage: Providing
that all laborers and employees of corporations
shall be paid in lawful money. The object of
this measure is to abolish q system Of several
coal COMPANIES in Southeastern Kansas OF pay
ing their employees in scrip. The House bill on
This subject was substituted for the Senate
bill: providing for weekly payments; fixing
legal days work at eight hours; to encourage
cooperative societies among artisans and labor
ers; increasing the salary of the Labor Com
missioner from 81 900 to $3.50; to amend the
Pharmacy law. When the committee rose the
House adjourned.
In the Senate on the 10Th bill was intro
duced providing for the police government OF
certain cities through a board of police com
missioners appointed by the Executive Council,
in certain contingencies. Nearly the whole day
was spent in Committee OF the Whole. :. In the
House many petitions were presented and many
bills introduced. The House then had O lively
debate in Committee Of the Whole upon the bill
creating the Twenty-fifth, Twenty-sixth and
Twenty-seventh Judicial districts The bill
was finally recommended for passage At the
afternoon session Mr.. Fockele's Forestry bill,
which provides for an exemption of 500 for each
acre Of forest trees planted and cultivated in
the State, and for every acre of fruit trees an
exemption of $50 for five years, was secom
mcnded for passage. At the evening Sc, sion 8
number Of bills passed, mostly of local char.
acter
In the Senate on the 18th the special com.
mittee reported favorably upon the proposition
to visit Wichita on the 18th. Several bills were
introduced. The University Appropriation biz
passed. Many other bills passed, most of then
of a local nature. Adjourned. :. In the House
many bills were introduced. The resolution
permitting the committee to investigate the
charges against Superintendent Walker, OF the
Deaf and Dumb Asylum, to employ a steno
grapher and subpoena witnesses was indefinitelI
postponed. After mapping out course for the
Wichita excursion the House took a recess. A.
the afternoon session bills were considered IL
Committee of the Whole. Mr.. Cables bill TO-
minority representation on State boards wa,
recommended for indefinite postponement tn.
bill known as the Eight-Hour law failed to pass
Adjourned to Monday morning.